Rules against using fireworks in the county

(a) Fireworks, including aerial devices, consumer fireworks, display fireworks, and articles pyrotechnic shall not be imported, possessed, stored, offered for sale, sold, transferred, purchased, set off, ignited, discharged, thrown, used, or otherwise caused to explode within the County unless licensed, permitted, or otherwise allowed by this article. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to: (1) Remove or extract the pyrotechnic contents from any fireworks or articles pyrotechnic; (2) Remove or extract the pyrotechnic contents from any fireworks or articles pyrotechnic and use the contents to construct fireworks, articles pyrotechnic, or a fireworks or articles pyrotechnic related device; (3) Throw any fireworks or articles pyrotechnic from a vehicle; (4) Set off, ignite, discharge, or otherwise cause to explode any fireworks or articles pyrotechnic: (A) At any time not within the periods for use prescribed in section 17-2-41(b), unless permitted pursuant to division 4 of this article; (B) Within one thousand feet of any operating hospital, licensed convalescent home, licensed home for the elderly, zoo, animal shelter, or animal hospital; (C) Within three hundred feet of any consumer fireworks retail sales facility; (D) In any school building, or on any school grounds or yards on any occasion; and (E) On any highway, alley, street, sidewalk, or other public way; in any park; on any public beach; or within one thousand feet of any building used for public worship during the periods when services are held; except as may be permitted pursuant to division 4 of this article; 17-7 SUPP. 20 (7-2026) (5) Set off, ignite, discharge, or otherwise cause to explode any display fireworks, articles pyrotechnic, or aerial devices within areas zoned residential or agricultural; and (6) It shall be unlawful to violate any of the provisions of this article. (2016, ord 16-107, sec 3; am 2023, ord 23-8, sec 2.) 17-2-21